How To Install faac on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install faac
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is faac
faac is:
The FAAC project includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2. It supports several MPEG-4 object types (LC, Main, LTP, HE AAC, PS) and file formats (ADTS AAC, raw AAC, MP4), multichannel and gapless en/decoding as well as MP4 metadata tags. The codecs are compatible with standard-compliant audio applications using one or more of these profiles.
This package contains the frontend.
There are three methods to install faac
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install faac Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install faac
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install faac
Install faac Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install faac
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install faac
Install faac Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install faac
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install faac
How To Uninstall faac on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the faac
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove faac
Uninstall faac And Its Dependencies
To uninstall faac
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove faac
Remove faac Configurations and Data
To remove faac
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge faac
Remove faac configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove faac
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge faac
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install faac
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.